[Aeolun]

I find HN to be quite easily navigable.

[stoppingin]

I definitely consider Hacker News to be designed in the style of the old internet.

[neilv]

old.reddit.com and HN are the two best Web forum UIs that I'm familiar with. (threading, scoring, putting message over writer, and minimizing cruft).

(Though I used to have much more powerful tools for Usenet and email.)